The Secret Garden

By Francis Hodgson Burnett"When her parents die during a cholera epidemic in India, Mary is sent back to England to live in her uncle's mysterious and isolated mansion. With only the servants for company, the spoiled orphan girl is terribly lonely…until she finds the key to a wonderful secret garden and makes her very first friend!It turns out that Mary's uncle locked the garden ten years ago when his wife died, and no one has been allowed in it since then. Can Mary and her new friend bring the garden back to life—and perhaps find a way to help her sickly cousin, too?"​Retrieved from clubs.scholastic.com

Mary, Colin, and Dickson are three very different children from three very different backgrounds and become the best of friends. How are the three characters different? What drew them together? If you could chose, which child would you be friends with and why?